Thomas Legge (1970 - 1607)

Educator, Playwright. His Latin tragedy “Richardus Tertius, or Richard III” (1579), was England’s first true history play. Legge changed the course of Elizabethan drama by introducing the nation’s political past to the stage, and by relying on historical sources (Sir Thomas More and Holinshed’s chronicles) for the material. The genre reached its peak with the […]

Stephen Dill Lee (1833 - 1908)

Civil War Confederate Lieutenant General, Educator. The youngest Lieutenant General of the Confederacy,  Stephen Dill Lee was born to Dr. Thomas Lee and Caroline Allison Lee on September 22, 1833, in Charleston, South Carolina.  He entered West Point at the age of 17 and graduated in 1854; he served in the U.S. Army in Texas, […]

Benjamin F. Lee, Sr (1970 - 1970)

Professor and President (1876-1884) of Wilberforce University. His son, B.F. Lee, also became a professor at Wilberforce University and, later, a physician who served the Wilberforce and Xenia, Ohio, communities. The B.F. Lee Health Center in Wilberforce honors this family.

John Lawrence (1970 - 1970)

English scholar. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

Frank Charles Laubach (1884 - 1970)

Religious Leader. A Congregational missionary and educator, beginning in 1929 he developed literacy primers for more then 300 languages and dialects in more than 100 countries. In 1955 he founded the non-profit organization, Laubach Literacy Inc. He created the slogan “Each One Teach One.”  Family links:  Parents:  John Brittain Laubach (1849 – 1935)  Harriet Jane […]

Sir Horace Lamb (1849 - 1934)

Mathematician. Teacher of Sir John Cockroft and Sir Arthur Eddington, among others. Specialist in hydrodynamics. Father of the artist Henry Lamb. (bio by: David Conway)  Family links:  Spouse:  Elizabeth Foot Lamb (1845 – 1930)*  Children:  Helen Elizabeth Lamb Palmer (1876 – 1954)* *Calculated relationship

John Laing (1879 - 1978)

Born in Carlisle and educated at the grammar school there, he became President of John Laing and Sons, the building contractors, and was also President of the London Bible College. He was knighted in 1959. (bio by: Iain MacFarlaine)  Family links:  Spouse:  Beatrice Laing (____ – 1972)* *Calculated relationship

Catherine Ladd (1809 - 1899)

Educator. Wrote and contributed poems, news-letters, and articles on education and art to southern journals and magazines. In Winnsborough, South Carolina, she successfully conducted a large boarding school until the Civil War began. She also published in the “Floral Wreath” and other periodicals tales, essays, and poems under the pen-names “Minnie Mayflower,” “Arcturus,” “Alida,” and […]

William Saul “Bill” Kroger (1906 - 1995)

Medical pioneer in the field of Psychology. (bio by: A.J. Marik)  Family links:  Parents:  Charles Mendell Kroger (1879 – 1929)  Rose Ziskin Kroger (1880 – 1958)

Juanita Morris Kreps (1921 - 2010)

Presidential Cabinet Secretary. She served as United States Secretary of Commerce from 1977 until 1979, during the administration of President Jimmy Carter, becoming the first female in that capacity. The daughter of a coal mine operator, her parents divorced when she was four. She was raised in a poverty-stricken Kentucky community during the depression, and […]

Elizabeth Duncan Koontz (1919 - 1989)

Educator. She was a teacher for 30 years, before becoming the first African American woman to head the Bureau of North Carolina Teachers Association. During the presidential Administration of Richard M. Nixon, she was the highest ranking black woman, heading the Women’s Bureau of the Department of Labor and served as a delegate to the […]

Naito Konan (1866 - 1934)

Also known as “Torajiro Naito,” he was a world-renowned Sinologist. After initially working as a journalist, he traveled to China frequently and became a professor of Chinese civilization at the University of Kyoto. He wrote many works on Sinology and became an expert on Chinese art. He was also an excellent calligrapher who also wrote […]

Kiyonori Konakamura (1970 - 1970)

Scholar of classical Japanese during the early Meiji era. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

Jan Amos Komensky (1592 - 1670)

Philosopher. He was a theologian and cartographer, but most considered as the first modern educationalist. His book ‘Orbis Pictus’ was the the first picture book for teaching children and remained a standard text in Europe (and in America) for over 200 years. Born in Moravia, (now in the Czech Republic), he died in Amsterdam in […]

Shinzo Koizumi (1970 - 1970)

Economist. Also served a president of Keiogijuku University. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

Tatsuo Kishimoto (1970 - 1970)

Educator. Served as the founder and president of Meiji University. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

Samuel Kirkland (1741 - 1808)

Missionary, Educator. Educated as a lawyer at Princeton, he was ordained to the Congregational ministry and commissioned Indian missionary by the board of correspondence of the Missionary society in 1766. During the Revolution he was active in endeavoring to preserve the neutrality of the Indian Six Nations, made several long journeys among the tribes and […]

Kyosuke Kindaichi (1882 - 1971)

Linguist, literary scholar. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

Dairoku Kikuchi (1855 - 1917)

Educator and mathematician. Also served as president of Tokyo University. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

Amos Kendall (1789 - 1869)

Amos Kendall (August 16, 1789 – November 12, 1869) was an American lawyer, journalist and politician. He rose to prominence as editor-in-chief of the Argus of Western America, an influential newspaper in Frankfort, the capital of the U.S. state of Kentucky. He used his newspaper, writing skills, and extensive political contacts to build the Democratic […]

Hiroyuki Kato (1836 - 1916)

Political scientist, scholar. He is the subject of a book,”The Moral and Political Naturalism of Baron Kato Hiroyuki” (1996). (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

Vuk Stefanovic Karadzic (1787 - 1864)

Educator. A Serbian language and literature scientist, he was the founder of the Serbian modern grammar and language. His works were play a very important role in the development of all Slavic languages. (bio by: Frantisek Zboray) Cause of death: natural causes

Umaji Kaneko (1970 - 1970)

Literary scholar, philosopher. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

George Junkin (1790 - 1868)

George Junkin was the son of Joseph Junkin, and the sixth of fourteen children born in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. His early years were spent on his father’s farm where he prepared for college. He graduated from Jefferson College now Washington and Jefferson College in 1813. After studying theology privately, he entered the Theological Seminary of […]

Joshua Henry Jones (1856 - 1934)

President, Wilberforce University 1900-1908.

Ezra Milford Jones (1896 - 1932)

Gangster. A member of the “Cuckoo Gang,” Jones (real name Jonas) committed robberies and murders all over the Midwest during Prohibition. Jones worked with the Purple Gang of Detroit and was a close friend of Fred “Killer” Burke. He had a particular hatred for Italian criminals, as they comprised most of his victims. Milford Jones […]

Cyril Edwin Mitchinson “C.E.M.” Joad (1891 - 1953)

Author. He was a philosopher. author, teacher and one of the best-known British radio personalities of the 1940’s. He was born in Durham and was educated at Blundell’s School in Tiverton, Devonshire, and at Balliol College, Oxford. At University, he developed the pacifist and socialist views which led him to become a conscientious objector in […]

La Jana (1905 - 1940)

Dancer. A pretty brunette trained as a classical ballerina, she is remembered for her many appearances in German films and stage revues. Born Henriette Margarethe (“Henny”) Hiebel, she was raised in Frankfurt from a young age, and studied at the Frankfurt Opera Ballet where she made her initial professional stage appearances at around age eight. […]

Amadeo Jacques (1813 - 1865)

Professor and philosopher. Between 1863 and his death, he was Director of the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires. One of his pupils, Miguel Cané, years later remembered him in his book. (bio by: 380W)  Family links:  Children:  Francisca Jacques (1859 – 1948)* *Calculated relationship

Shuji Izawa (1851 - 1917)

Prominent educator. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)